Tagged: climate change

The climate crisis is also a biodiversity crisis - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 08, 2020 •

• Australian bushfires,
• Biodiversity,
• biodiversity crisis,
• bushfire,
• climate change,
• ecology

Dr Andrea Byrom Like many of us, the summer break has seen me transfixed with horror at the scale and magnitude of the bushfire crisis in Australia. As an ecologist, I can’t help but be appalled at the loss of some of Australia’s most beautiful ecosystems and landscapes. And as someone who experienced all 20,000 (and counting) Christchurch earthquakes, … Read More

Tourism and the ETS - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 20, 2019 •

• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• emissions trading scheme,
• ETS,
• tourism

Eloise Gibson covers the carbon costs of tourism over at Newsroom: But in reality: “value-led tourism growth may actually worsen those pressures that are linked with consumption. Higher-value visitors, by definition, consume more goods and services, all of which have an associated greenhouse gas and solid waste footprint. To the extent that these goods and services are relatively energy … Read More

Which countries are likely to meet their Paris Agreement targets - Climate: Explained

Robert McLachlan • Dec 18, 2019 •

• climate change,
• emissions,
• Paris Agreement

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Which countries in the world have met or bettered their Paris Agreement targets? Robert McLachlan, Massey University The … Read More

Seven reasons to be wary of waste-to-energy proposals - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Dec 11, 2019 •

• climate change,
• incineration,
• landfills,
• waste,
• waste-to-energy

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I was in Switzerland recently and discovered that they haven’t had any landfill since the early 2000s, because … Read More

How climate change will affect food production and security - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Dec 04, 2019 •

• Agriculture,
• climate change,
• food production,
• food shortage

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz According to the United Nations, food shortages are a threat due to climate change. Are food shortages a … Read More

How much does flying contribute to climate change? - Climate: Explained

Shaun Hendy • Nov 27, 2019 •

• aircraft,
• carbon,
• climate change,
• flying,
• Transport

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz How much does our use of air travel contribute to the problem of climate change? And is it more damaging … Read More

Why coastal floods are becoming more frequent as seas rise - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Nov 20, 2019 •

• climate change,
• coastal flooding,
• sea level rise,
• tides

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I saw an article claiming that “king tides” will increase in frequency as sea level … Read More

On the road to Net Zero, the next step is to update our UN pledge - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Nov 18, 2019 •

• carbon budget,
• carbon market,
• climate change,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• Paris Agreement

A lot has happened since the UN’s report on 1.5ºC was released in October 2018. New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Bill has passed, and enshrines the 1.5ºC goal in law. The UK and France have also legally strengthened their targets to Net Zero 2050. The School Strike For Climate and Extinction Rebellion have become household names. But progress on the ground … Read More

Political parties and GMOs: we all need to move on - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Nov 14, 2019 •

• biosynthesis,
• climate change,
• gene editing,
• genetically modified organisms,
• gmo,
• GMOs,
• Green Party,
• New Zealand,
• Vaccine,
• Zero Carbon Bill

Recently more than 150 post-graduate students and young scientists presented an open letter to the Green Party via The Spinoff, encouraging them to reconsider their position on genetic modification. Their target is tackling climate change issues.[1] Can any party continue to be dismissive about genetic modification (GM) contributing to better agriculture? We all want safe food, and … Read More

How growth in population and consumption drives planetary change - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Nov 13, 2019 •

• Carbon dioxide,
• climate change,
• geology,
• population

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz The growth of the human population over the last 70 years has exploded from 2 billion to nearly … Read More